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Level Up your Watercolor Game - 5 Days of Polaroid Paintings

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Intro

      0:28

    • 2.

      Materials

      1:37

    • 3.

      Taping the Paper

      2:00

    • 4.

      Day 1 - Colour Palette and Techniques

      5:13

    • 5.

      Day 1

      8:33

    • 6.

      Day 2 - Colour Palette and Techniques

      4:39

    • 7.

      Day 2

      13:47

    • 8.

      Day 3 - Colour Palette and Techniques

      6:02

    • 9.

      Day 3

      7:30

    • 10.

      Day 4 - Colour Palette and Techniques

      6:09

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Hello artists!!!

          Are you someone who is looking to level up your watercolour skills? Then come paint these beautiful Polaroids with me. 

           I have covered all the art materials you need. I have also shown the way of Taping the paper for Polaroids. Also, the colours and techniques used in each project is shown in the beginning. 

Materials: 

  • Watercolour Paper : It is most important thing while working with Watercolours. Use atleast 300 gsm paper either 100% cotton or 25% cotton.
  • Paints
  • Palette: You can use any plastic, ceramic or metal palette for mixing the Watercolours, just ensure it has enough space for mixing the colours.
  • Brush: Use brushes that holds a lot of water and paint.
  • Masking Tape
  • Water jars
  • Rough Cloth
  • White gouache

            These are all we need. See you in the class.

Xoxo,

Kirti

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Kirti Nama

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Hey there!

I am Kirti, a self taught artist and a creator based in Rajasthan, India. I love to try new mediums. This past year, I explored many different mediums but Gouache and Watercolour happens to be my favourite.

Since childhood, I have been inclined towards Art. I started drawing Mandalas two years back and there has been no looking back ever since. When I observe Nature around me, I want to put everything on paper.

Thank You for joining me in this journey.

You can find me on Instagram as the.lilac.palette .

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1. Intro: Hello, I'm Keithy, a watercolor artist based in India, I'm back with a watercolor class on polenoid. These cute little polenoids are so fun and relaxing to paint and these are perfect for daily practice. One polenoid hardly takes ten to 15 minutes. Along with the materials used in this class, I will also show you the colors and techniques used for each project. I hope you will like it. Let's dive into it. 2. Materials : Let's start with the art supplies we need for this class. First of all, watercolor paper. I will be using this one. This is from csim. This is 300 GSM, 100% cotton. It is cold press. I will be cutting this paper into half in Aix size. Then we have the paints next. I will use some of the paints from Shinhan, this stro, and some watercolor pants from white knights. Then I have this watercolor palette in which I will mix the paints. You can use any palette you have with you. Moving on to brushes, I have this Princeton Neptune travel brush. I will be using size number four and size number eight. Then I have this number two synthetic brush from Neva Pate. Then for the details, I will use this smaller size brush, a masking tape to paste the paper on board, water, rough cloth or any tissue. Then I have this white, a pencil. I will suggest you to use a light pencil such as three H. These are all the supplies we need. 3. Taping the Paper: Let's talk about the paper size. This is an acid size paper from Kansm. It is a 300 GSM paper, so it will remain wet for longer time. What I will do is I will just tape down the paper, and somewhere here, I will put one more tape so we will get a square. Let's tape the paper. Let's measle the polyarci. It's ten centimeter wide, and I'm digging 11 centimeter as len. I pasted the tape on a cloth first, so it will lose some of its sticky residue and it will prevent the tearing of paper. 4. Day 1 - Colour Palette and Techniques : Welcome. Here's the first project. As you can see, I have used five colors for this. Let's talk about the color palette. The first color is cobalt blue. This is from Shinhan. The pigment is PB 28. The second shade we have is erleum blue. This is from white knights. The third shade I'm using is burned Sieno from Shinhan again. The fourth shade is screen from Busto And the last color I have here is black. Now, let's switch the shades. Here, I'm writing the details so you know about the brands and the pigments. Et's have a look at the techniques. First, the blurry background. So apply clean water on paper. Apply diluted blue. Before that twice, I will apply second color, the burn Siena. Then apply sap green. Then using a damp brush and blending all these colors Now for the dandelion, take thick black pin and paint the stem. It is thin and pointed at top, and as we move downwards, it gets thicker. Now for the upper part, what I will do is just I will paint a thin line and then some small lines in a semicircle like shape. I'm showing you a simpler version of this with the help of a pen. First, it is something like this. And then thin lines inside the outline. This is the structure I'm trying to tell you about. Let's move on to the project. 5. Day 1: Welcome to Devon. I will start with the sketch. Draw a thin line for stem. Apply clean water on the paper, apply a good amount of water, so it will remain wet while we work. I have applied enough water now. I will start by applying diluted cobalt blue on top. I want a blurry background so I will work quickly. Now, with the help of a dam brush, I will plant the pain. I will move my brush all the way down here. Then I'm applying diluted erleum blue just below the cobalt blue. Now I'm applying diluted scream at the lower part. I'm lifting some of the green paint to make it lighter. Then apply diluted burnt sienna where we have left the white space. And then blend it with the green using a damp brush. I'm applying some more green to make it darker. Now I will wait for it to dry. The paper is dry now. I will use size number four brush and I'm picking black pigment with very less water for the solute. Now I'm starting with the stem. With the help of the smaller fish, I will paint the upper part of the tendelon as we learned in the technique section. Paint some more flowers in the smaller size. I'm darkening the seed of the dandelion. I think that's enough. I'm painting some more petals like they are just flowing in air. I think four or five petals will be enough. These are in nda direction. Now, I will remove the tape. Remove this tape very slowly with light hand to avoid tearing of paper. We have a very nice and crisp line and the paper is also safe. This is your first project. 6. Day 2 - Colour Palette and Techniques : Welcome to Day two. Let's talk about the colors used. Today, I will use these three colors from white knight. The first shade is green. This is a dark green kind of shade. You can see how it looks when diluted. The second shade I'm using is paints gray. Then the next one is quinacridone violet. Let's get to the details. The green shade, its pigment is PG eight. Then the next one is paints gray. The last one Quinetldon violet, its pigment is PV 55. Moving on to the techniques, the first one is this blurry pgroun. First, apply clean water. Then take green paint and drop it on wet paper. When it dries, it will blend on its own. For these background flowers, I will take the paint and while the paper is still wet, I will paint the flowers like shape. Now, for the foreground flowers, I will take the same shade in more consistency with very less water and paint the petals. You see this and now paint more petals. Before the twice, I will quickly take some paints gray and drop it in the center. At last, take green paint and paint the lower part of the flower. The stem is a very thin line. For the birds, I will use the same green shade. Now, let's paint the cornflas 7. Day 2: Welcome today, too. Let's start with the sketch. I just want a rough idea where I want my flask. Keep the length of the flour different. Now using this number eight dish, I'm applying the water. We have to work fast if we want achieve nice wet on wet effect, apply three or four layers of water. Remove any excess water on paper. I'm applying some green paint. I'm just dropping this paint here. Now I'm removing the extra pane. So more green. And then I'm spreading some green on lower area. Using quinacidon violet, I will quickly paint the flowers for background. Note that the paper should be wet during the entire process. Now I'm splattering some green paint on my wet paper. Do the same with violet also. The paper is dry now completely. Now I will use wet on dry metal for the foreground flow using the same violet taint small petals. And then drop some paints gray. Also, I will feed some birds. Now paint the stems. Paint the lower part of the flowers using green. Repeat the same. Now I will paint grass like stops using sat train. Remove the tape carefully. This is our second polygond. 8. Day 3 - Colour Palette and Techniques : Welcome. Here is our project for day three. You can see this beautiful blue galaxy. Let's talk about the colors. Here I have used four colors and white case. Let me tell you the shades. The first one is erleum blue. The next color I have is ultramarine. Moving on to the next, here I have Cobalblue the last one is Pains gray. Let's have a look at the swatches. For the splatters, I have used whitequh. Now the details. For the first one, the cerulum blue, the pigment is PB 35. Y Then we have ultramarine with the pigment PB 29. Then cobalt blue is PV 28. For the techniques, first, apply clean water. Then pick the lightest shade and apply on wet paper. Then quickly pick another color and apply besides the first one. And then using a Dems blend all these together. I have picked up white quash now, and I'm going to drop it on wet paper. When this white paint dries, it will give us this kind of look. That's all. See you in the next lesson. 9. Day 3: Welcome to day three. Let's apply water. Apply some more coats of water so the people will remain wet while we work. Now, using this number four brush and applying sum blue in the middle part of the paper, this is the base layer. Apply another layer on it. Next, I'm using ultramarine and I'm applying this around erleum blue. Then here I'm applying Cobalt Blue. At last, apply pin screen. Repeat the same process on other side. Cabal blue here. Then paints gray. The base layer is complete now. I will apply the second layer now, blend the paints with each other before the paint dries. Now I have taken some diluted white quash on my brush and I will drop it randomly in the center. And then splatter some more guh. So the paper is dry and I'm splattering some more white paint. Now, with the help of a small brush, I'm picking some sash paint, and I will paint these small stars. And remove the tape carefully. And here is our final result. 10. Day 4 - Colour Palette and Techniques : Welcome. Here, this is the project for day four. This is a mountain with beautiful shades of pink and a galaxy sky. Talking about colors, I have Golden Deep, Medal Lake red, ultramarine and permanent violet. Rose Medal Lake and whitecsh. And I'm creating this color by mixing golden deep and Mada Lake red and some white cash. Now, for the mountain, paint a mountain structure. Apply second layer to make it a little darker. We will use dry on dry and wet on dry in this project. Taking the wet violet, paint the half side of the mountain where we want the shadow. This is it. Mm.